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From: SMENON [mailto:SMENON@pilot.lsus.edu]

Hi all!

I am scheduled to do some guest lecturing (graduate level) on OB/management
topics in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) later this month. If you
have taught in Slovenia or in Yugoslavia or in Eastern Europe, could you
share some teaching tips? Any cross-cultural pitfalls to avoid? Also, any
particular ice-breaker for the first session that might work?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Sanjay

Sanjay T. Menon, Ph.D.
Department of Management & Marketing
College of Business Administration
Louisiana State University Shreveport
1 University Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
USA
Tel: 318 797 5186
Fax: 318 797 5127
E-mail: smenon@pilot.lsus.edu

Sanjay: Here are a couple suggestions:

1. Indicate at the start that you feel you have some useful things to share, but you understand that principles and practices don't always apply completely and in the same way all over the world. To help make appropriate application to your participants' needs you would really appreciate their active input and assistance (you don't want to confirm the Ugly American image of having all the answers and being rather close-minded--you also look forward to learning from them!).

2. Minimize the effort to get total group/class discussion, and instead have frequent small group discussions on a problem, question, or case followed by group reporting back to the total class.

Hope this helps.

Charlie Vance
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles


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Sent: Wed 12/8/2004 7:37 AM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Teaching tips for Eastern Europe

From: SMENON [mailto:SMENON@pilot.lsus.edu]

Hi all!

I am scheduled to do some guest lecturing (graduate level) on OB/management
topics in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) later this month. If you
have taught in Slovenia or in Yugoslavia or in Eastern Europe, could you
share some teaching tips? Any cross-cultural pitfalls to avoid? Also, any
particular ice-breaker for the first session that might work?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Sanjay

Sanjay T. Menon, Ph.D.
Department of Management & Marketing
College of Business Administration
Louisiana State University Shreveport
1 University Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
USA
Tel: 318 797 5186
Fax: 318 797 5127
E-mail: smenon@pilot.lsus.edu

From: Centre for Socio Eco Nomic Development saneryiu@csend.org

Dear Sanjay,

we have designed and implemented a 3 year capacity building and government
reform project in Slovenia from 1993-1996. part of our institution
develoment project consisted of organising a one year full time MPA in which
42 colleagues from North America, Western Europe, Hong Kong and Australia
participated. The project called M.A.S.T.E.R. (Mastering Administrative
Systems through Trainnig Education and Research) was, as far as we know, the
only successfully completed central government reform project in Central
Europe so far.

You can find some project information on our website (see below). I will
also send you by separate mail copies of the publications pertaining to our
project. Quite a lot of the inforamtion should be useful for you and your
teaching assingment. this is also true for other colleagues working in other
Central and Eastern European countries or in Central Asia.

I wish you success with your assignment and lots of good time and discovery
of this old region rich in history and culture
best regards
Raymond

Dr Raymond Saner, Director
Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND)
P.O. Box 1498 Mont Blanc
1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-906-1720; Fax: +41-22-738-1737
Web: http://www.csend.org

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From: SMENON [mailto:SMENON@pilot.lsus.edu]

Hi all!

I am scheduled to do some guest lecturing (graduate level) on OB/management
topics in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) later this month. If you
have taught in Slovenia or in Yugoslavia or in Eastern Europe, could you
share some teaching tips? Any cross-cultural pitfalls to avoid? Also, any
particular ice-breaker for the first session that might work?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Sanjay

Sanjay T. Menon, Ph.D.
Department of Management & Marketing
College of Business Administration
Louisiana State University Shreveport
1 University Place
Shreveport, LA 71115
USA
Tel: 318 797 5186
Fax: 318 797 5127
E-mail: smenon@pilot.lsus.edu

From: S.Cameron S.Cameron@open.ac.uk

I discovered that in Romania there is the same word for teaching and
learning, which made a session about needing to develop learning, rather
than teach, rather sticky.


Sheila

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi all!
>
> I am scheduled to do some guest lecturing (graduate level) on
OB/management
> topics in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) later this month. If you
> have taught in Slovenia or in Yugoslavia or in Eastern Europe, could you
> share some teaching tips? Any cross-cultural pitfalls to avoid? Also,
any
> particular ice-breaker for the first session that might work?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
>
> Sanjay
>
> E-mail: smenon@pilot.lsus.edu

Interesting, do they use the same term for learners, teachers, trainers?

Christie Mason

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From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU]On Behalf Of Charles Wankel
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:50 PM
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Re: Teaching tips for Eastern Europe


From: S.Cameron S.Cameron@open.ac.uk

I discovered that in Romania there is the same word for teaching and
learning, which made a session about needing to develop learning, rather
than teach, rather sticky.


Sheila

If you're willing to go to some trouble and dig out informaiton on this issue, I have two related working papers that will be published as a book chapter and a journal article in 2005 at http://www.romielittrell.homestead.com that discuss Romania and Central Europe and Hofstede's commentary on the behaviour of students and teachers in a country based upon his dimension scores, they are:

TheJMD_LeadershipBehaviour_Ro_De_UK_RevisedAfterReview.doc

Teaching_Students_from_Confucian_Cultures_rev2.doc

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This is also the case in the Welsh language there is one word for teaching
and learning -dysgu.

Professor Norah Jones
E-College Wales
University of Glamorgan
Treforest
CF37 1DL
tel: 01443 654094
e-mail njones2@glam.ac.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: Management Education and Development Discussion
[mailto:MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Wankel
Sent: 08 December 2004 18:50
To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
Subject: Re: Teaching tips for Eastern Europe

From: S.Cameron S.Cameron@open.ac.uk

I discovered that in Romania there is the same word for teaching and
learning, which made a session about needing to develop learning, rather
than teach, rather sticky.


Sheila

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi all!
>
> I am scheduled to do some guest lecturing (graduate level) on
OB/management
> topics in Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) later this month. If you
> have taught in Slovenia or in Yugoslavia or in Eastern Europe, could you
> share some teaching tips? Any cross-cultural pitfalls to avoid? Also,
any
> particular ice-breaker for the first session that might work?
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
>
> Sanjay
>
> E-mail: smenon@pilot.lsus.edu